DM168 Arts: Artists take a stand with sit-ins over poor management of Covid relief fund

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The woeful neglect by the arts ministry and pressures wrought by the pandemic may just be the final nail in the coffin for SA’s arts sector.

Five years ago Thapelo Mokhutshoane, a theatre practitioner from the North West, received funding from the National Arts Council , “but to get the money I had to come to their [Johannesburg] offices, kicking and screaming, because they hadn’t paid me and I needed answers”, said Mokhutshoane.

“A few years ago, I had a book published. I applied for a grant to help me promote the book, but I was rejected. Since then I’ve struggled to promote it. This department doesn’t care about us small writers; they’re more interested in funding bigger writers,” said Ntombela. On 14 March, during a Zoom meeting with the artists staging the sit-in in the NAC offices, council members apologised to the creatives for how they’d handled the stimulus package. “I really do apologise for all of this. With each and every meeting we’re going to have, we’ll have to apologise because we really didn’t want to be at loggerheads with the artists,” said Princess Celenhle Dlamini, the acting chairperson of the NAC’s council.

But the issues with the arts department and how it was viewed by the ruling party dated back to before liberation, said Ansell.

The lack of understanding of how the sector works has also been a critique levelled against the incumbent, Nathi Mthethwa. The way the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture handles everything “is a mess” and it’s partly because they don’t understand the significance of the arts in this country, said Mokhutshoane.

 

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